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1 - An image of the site manager Alexander Aculinin and Atmospheric Research Group colleagues Vladimir Smicov, Albert Policarpov and Vitali Graciov with the sun photometer.

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2 - A close-up view of the sun photometer.

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Site Coodinates and Elevation:

Latitude: 47.00010° North

Longitude: 28.81560° East

Elevation: 205.0 Meters

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Description:

The Kishinev sunphotometer site is located on the roof of the Institute of Applied Physics building (20 meters high). At this site they also have a MiniMet automatic weather station to supplement the solar irradiance measurements with the main meteorological observations; a MICROTOPS II Ozonemeter to carry out total column ozone measurements; and radiometric instrumentation which forms the backbone of the measuring complex and carries out the solar irradiance (broadband) measurements from UV-B to IR . All of the instruments are part of the whole measuring complex which is now in operation.